Rwanda: how Canberra can really help
Canberra's belated decision to spend $10 million for aid to Rwanda, although welcome, is a pittance compared to the amount rich Australia could and should contribute. Putting the figure in proportion, $10
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Give-aways to Go Fish
Go Fish, an all out lesbian date movie, is a hip lifestyle comedy that follows the lives of five women as they go on dates, have fashion crises, oversleep, wish for and deal with love. Rose Troche's stunning directorial
By Joan Coxsedge and Gerry Harant
The ongoing process of rewriting the history of Australia's labour movement pervades David McKnight's book Australian Spies and Their Secrets, reviewed by 91×ÔÅÄÂÛ̳ Weekly some weeks ago.
The book is based
Electrical workers fight for jobs
By Chris Spindler
ADELAIDE — One thousand Electrical Trades Union members are taking industrial action over the proposed introduction of contract labour by the Electricity Trust Supply A. An 80-member
By Reihana Mohideen
Despite heavy rains around 40,000 people protested in Manila against the Filipino version of a consumption tax, the Value Added Tax (VAT), which the Ramos government is threatening to introduce during the next session of
Poets and Presidents: Selected Essays 1977-1992
By E.L. Doctorow
Papermac, 1994. 206 pp., $24.95 (pbk)
Reviewed by Phil Shannon
E.L. Doctorow is one of the few American writers today who does not shy away from novels about people's social
By Renfrey Clarke
MOSCOW — Whoever was destined to head the polls in the second round of the Ukrainian presidential elections on July 10, the real winner was never in doubt. That was to be the "party of power" — the layer of high-placed
Campaign opposes privatisation
By Maurice Sibelle
BRISBANE — Ian McLean, state secretary of the Communications Workers Union, and a former long-serving president of the state Labor Party, is prepared to fight the party's moves towards
Hiroshima — Never Again!
August 6 marks the 49th anniversary of the atomic bomb dropped by the United States on the Japanese people in Hiroshima. Since then the development of atomic weapons has continued at an alarming rate. Further, since
For years anti-choice terrorists in the United States
have attacked abortion clinics with the government openly aiding
their campaigns against women's right to choose. However, in the
last few months, some Supreme Court decisions and national
By Daniel Board
MELBOURNE — A 1000-strong, spirited demonstration was held here on the July 28 by students outraged at the prospect of losing their student unions. This rally was part of an ongoing campaign for the repeal of Victorian
High Court to consider Timor Gap Treaty
By Bernie Brian
DARWIN — According to Darwin-based Queens Counsel, Alastair Wyvill, the High Court is taking the upcoming hearings on the Timor Gap Treaty very seriously. Speaking at a public
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